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Comment by Schadenfreude

This spell allows a mage to make a portal to Dalaran Crater-- i.e. Dalaran's old location. It's essentially an out-of-date GPS map.

Comment by Oberheim

While it is unlikely to need to go to Dalaran Crater for anything it will be nice to be able quickly access northern Eastern Kingoms like the plaguelands, however, i think this should be available at a lower level at a point when you would be able to quest in the plaguelands, but if you're gonna do that, maybe a portal to Hearthglen would serve you even better.

Comment by martinez93

Probably also a portal to old Dalaran(the current in northrend). becuase Jaina will become the new leader of kirin tor and she isnt neutral anymore. So she maybe throw all hordes out and move dalaran somewhere.It will maybe be 2dalaran, 1 in easternkingdom/kalimdor and 1 in northrend

Comment by Otore

Comment by Pootie

Do NOT tell your friends that when you go thru you will fall to your death

You'd be surprised how many people have no idea this exists. Search trade chat and find out how many "pros" tell you that your wrong, it doesnt exist.

Comment by Ulsaki

This teleports you or your unwitting friends right above the crater, high enough to kill you with fall damage; perfect for dealing with those who rudely demand portals. The portal also has the exact same name as a regular Dalaran portal so you cannot tell the difference unless you look at what spell the mage casts.

If you don't have any means of surviving the drop at the other end, you'll probably want to ask the mage for a slow fall as well.

Comment by Madshark

At this moment ( 5.0.5 ) the portal brings you around 150y above the ground, making this a cool toy for very evil mages. Clicking on it and you WILL die without slowfall.

Comment by Tenjen

Mage portals running on Google Maps.

Comment by suntimehappy

For those who want to use this portal to the greatest effect there are three ways.

#1Offer people free Portals to Dalaran and trick them with this. Bonus points if they give you gold out of generosity.

#2When everyone is using warlock portal to summon people for Sha of Anger, sneak in this portal in the middle of all the summoning portals. Make sure you have a few other mages in the raid so people can't work out that it was you.

#3After finishing a TB or WG, offer to port people back to Stormwind. While the people who pay attention may see through your prank, you will often get a few people off guard.

Comment by Kamikaze28

Now you're killing with portals.

Comment by Rossmallo

This Portal actually has actually become very useful during Winter Veil, because it teleports you within spitting distance of where you need to be for You're a Mean One....

Just make sure you have an ability to survive the fall.

Comment by Entilzha2161

For those wondering about portals to places that no longer exist such as old Dalaran and Theramore, the answer can be found in one of the filler books in Dalaran for the "Higher Learning" Achievement entitled "Thinking with Portals - A Memorandum on Proper Portal Usage" (Thinking with Portals - A Memorandum on Proper Portal Usage/thinking-with-portals-a-memorandum-on-proper-portal-usage#comments)

Rule number 1 about portals is below - mages have the ability to create portals to anywhere, but the penalty for doing so to a non Kirin-Tor approved destination is forbidden and punishable with death (through I'd love to get my hands on one of these D-6 Permits). Despite the cities no longer being there the portal designations were already established and thus can still be used without Jaina hunting you down.

"Rule #1: Do not create a portal to anywhere but the designated Kirin Tor portal drop-off zones. The most dangerous aspect of the portal spell is its vast potential. We realize it's easy for a mage to create a door to anywhere, so our only way to combat such potentially deadly acts is to make it punishable by death.Special Issue License D-6 permits open portal usage, but is rarely issued. Speak with your local Portal Trainer about qualifying for this license.".

Comment by salvo1

This ability was a terrible idea. Too many idiots and trolls in this game who abuse it without warning. Just died to this ability today after a successful Oondasta raid that I spent a lot of time and energy organizing and recruiting for. Politely and courteously to boot. Then some random idiot puts this up to "help" our 40 man raid get back to civilization.

Blizzard honestly shouldn't make abilities like this, for every person with a legitimate reason to use this, there are many more who are just stupid.

Comment by neonjohn

You mean those Kirin Tor summoners haven't summoned Dalaran back to the crater yet? They have to be low on mana by now! Maybe Jaina's staff, after it's been empowered by the Thunder King, can help do it!

Comment by Dave

Only a few weeks have I been a Mage at level 90... must have killed about 90 people with this so far. Love it!

Make sure you kill the final boss (Flameweaver Koegler) fast and stand infront of him to block him burning his books.

Hand in 2 quests.

Loot book from the shelf just inside on the right. (If you look backwards towards the door, it's just on the left)

Learn Ancient Teleport: Dalaran.

Go to regular Dalaran

You can now buy one copy of Ancient Tome of Portal: Dalaran from Endora Moorehead (in the room to the left of the Violet Citadel steps).

Comment by Taercennx

Have not seen this here, which is weird, so I am adding it.

Best travel destination forYou're a Mean One... hands down. Just make sure you don't fall to your death when you use it.

Comment by Purepaladin

Me and some other guys were asking this mage to tp us to Dalaran, and forgot about the Ancient portal, he made one and everyone died. Made us rage.

Comment by KiritaWindwalker

This portal is great if you need to get to that side of Eastern Kingdom without long flights from Isle or IF. But its also the "Trololololol Portal!" When YOU cast it it'll let you know its the "Ancient Portal" but the portal itself just says Dalaran.

Side note if your only trying to troll a person or two... You can use your feather to survive but it wont stay on anyone but you after going through... Me and my boyfriend tried. Stayed on me and his got dispelled right away.

Fun Note: If bored, its great for Russian Rolluete, Portal style!

To all portal takers... If it says Dal and the mage is putting on a slow fall... Or insisting you go first... Don't risk it! :D

To any looking to get it, you can find it in Scarlet Halls normal, just kill last boss and grab the out of place BLUE book on the shelf! Theres your teleport!

With exalted rep the Portal book cost 105 gold from the magic vendors in the current Dal! Enjoy! :D

Comment by rjosro

I drop one at the end of almost every lfr and just giggle when I see people click it :D

Comment by Corpsis

For some reason when I did this all I recieved was the teleport: Dalaran spell. Not the actual ability to cast the portal. Any ideas on what to do?

Comment by Skullhawk13

For the sake of science, I did some testing.

Pandaren do NOT survive the fall. Pandaren rogues ALSO do not survive the fall even with glyph of slowfall. I made sure to test with as many pandaren as possible, again purely for the sake of science.

Comment by Zetruzu

It took me a while to find this for this reason:

Make SURE you are not in a party to another realm while looking to buy this tome!^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I was in a group that killed Rukhmar, and decided to go get the portal right after, and she sells none of her special mage items while you are cross-realm. Make sure you are not in a party!

Comment by thebl4ckd0g

The only way I found out about this spell was mages griefing people by putting it on top of warlock summoning portals. Once you click on it, it's too late. Though I'm now happy that I was able to pick it up on my mage. :D

Comment by Uroon

There are actually unique icons for Ancient Daralan / Dalaran Crater in game, but currently not used:

You can now buy one copy of Ancient Tome of Portal: Dalaran from Endora Moorehead (in the room to the left of the Violet Citadel steps) - though if someone has bought it recently, you might need to wait up to an hour for her to sell it again.

Comment by Gracejones

This will be great for Legion, what with the return of Dalaran as the major hub. Mwa-ha-ha

Comment by Morphling1981

Is this still here? I couldn't find it once 7.0 dropped.

Comment by Sonofargo

Thank you blizzard for bringing back dalaran so that I may troll people with this portal once again.

Comment by RepoGamer

Honestly, when I'm bored and tired of focusing on Raiding or Questing or whatnot, I just sit there with a camp fire and some mead and watch how many drop from the sky. Quite entertaining to tell ya the truth. I offer them comfort and conversation. No one really responds though. I suppose it's the rage.